Transcriber's Notes

  1. The Anglicized names of the various composers retained as in the original.
  2. This book uses special characters with accents to indicate pronunciations in the [vocabulary]: ā ē ī ū ō o͞o (macron); ă ĕ ĭ ŭ ŏ o͝o (breve); ä (dieresis above), a̤ (dieresis below), ȧ (dot), ẽ (tilde). If some characters do not display properly, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. Please make sure that the browser's "character set" or "file encoding" is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser's default font.
  3. a̤ and ŭ used in the vocabulary had no examples of pronunciation. These have been retained as in the original.
  4. For accessibility, the music snippets contain lyrics in the alt-text if available, and are linked to music midi files.
  5. List of illustrations not in the original has been provided for your convenience; for accessibility, brief descriptions of the images are provided in the alt-text.
  6. On [page 141], "Wolgang" has been corrected to "Wolfgang".

STORIES OF
GREAT MUSICIANS

BY
KATHRINE LOIS SCOBEY
AND
OLIVE BROWN HORNE

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY